On 05/08/2015 02:20 AM, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Thursday, May 07, 2015 11:17:21 PM Preeti U Murthy wrote:
>> When a CPU has to enter an idle state where tick stops, it makes a call
>> to tick_broadcast_enter(). The call will fail if this CPU is the
>> broadcast CPU. Today, under such a circum
On Thursday, May 07, 2015 11:17:21 PM Preeti U Murthy wrote:
> When a CPU has to enter an idle state where tick stops, it makes a call
> to tick_broadcast_enter(). The call will fail if this CPU is the
> broadcast CPU. Today, under such a circumstance, the arch cpuidle code
> handles this CPU. Thi
When a CPU has to enter an idle state where tick stops, it makes a call
to tick_broadcast_enter(). The call will fail if this CPU is the
broadcast CPU. Today, under such a circumstance, the arch cpuidle code
handles this CPU. This is not convincing because not only are we not
aware what the arch c
